Does police officer training for managing a domestic violence scene improve the chances for a cas... more Does police officer training for managing a domestic violence scene improve the chances for a case to be accepted for prosecution and to result in a conviction? If such training emphasises more careful evidence collection and response to victim, would not there be an increase in time spent on the scene? This article is an evaluation of domestic violence training for police officers and analyses the effect of the training on the amount of time police officers spend on the scene with victims of domestic violence, number of cases accepted for prosecution, and the case's culmination in a conviction. Data from 291 domestic violence cases were collected from a southwest, predominantly Mexican American, metropolitan police department and district attorney's office. Findings indicate no significant increases in time spent at the scene, acceptance of the case for prosecution, and conviction when comparing cases managed by trained officers to cases managed by untrained officers.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the level of suspicion by death certifiers when ruling infant deaths... more ABSTRACT This paper examines the level of suspicion by death certifiers when ruling infant deaths as accidents. Data were gathered on economic factors, amount of training in death investigation received, and personal characteristics for 1995 from 776 medical examiners or coroners. Findings indicate that personal and social factors such as age, education, and population have negligible or no effects on the level of suspicion held by death certifiers in manner of death rulings for infants. The findings from this study do suggest there is potential for inaccurate rulings of infant death due to lack of training, education, and economic resources depending on the events surrounding an infant's death and whether the death certifier is a coroner or medical examiner.
Using cross-national data, we analyze the effects of economic participation and opportunity, educ... more Using cross-national data, we analyze the effects of economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, political empowerment, legislating reserved seats for female political candidates, and prevalence of domestic violence victimization on lethal violence against women across 39 nations. These significant factors have been studied individually with little work on their comparative, unique effects on femicide. Our paper makes such a comparison. The dependent variable, femicide by intimate partners and family members, is constructed using data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Bank Group. All data are for the year 2011, a year that also corresponds to available data in the sources for our independent variables. These sources are the 2011 World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report, the United Nations Statistics Division, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Our resulting sample size is 39 countries from five regions of the world: Northern and Eastern Europe (n = 7), Southern and Western Europe (n = 11), Asia and Oceania (n = 7) Africa (n = 2), and the Americas (n = 12). The unit of analysis is nation and the total number of cases of femicide by intimate partners and family members from the nations is 2,067,450,894. Our study supports backlash theory and finds in nations where educational attainment and percent women reporting domestic violence are higher, and in nations having legislated quotas for female political participation, the incidents of femicide by intimate partner and family members increase. Counter to most previous research, we find no relationship between economic participation and opportunity or political empowerment and femicide by intimate partners and family members.
The utility of demographic and structural variables in examining child fatalities is explored usi... more The utility of demographic and structural variables in examining child fatalities is explored using data from the Uniform Crime Reports, which include all known homicide cases in the state of Texas from 1984 through 1994. The authors' analysis shows that the predictive power of these variables for adult homicide is substantially reduced when predicting child homicide. Social Exchange Theory provides a conceptual framework from which to analyze these types of cases by suggesting conditions under which infants may be lethally injured, usually by a parent or caretaker. This inclination is examined, explained, justified, and treated primarily according to physiological and psychological correlates.
Abstract: This article presents an analysis of the details of a fatal event and why heightened em... more Abstract: This article presents an analysis of the details of a fatal event and why heightened emotional stress could cause a mother to respond to her child with lethal aggression. It synthesizes earlier social correlates surrounding infant homicide with the depth of their ...
Vita.This study attempts to discover and model social correlates of infant homicide. A social pro... more Vita.This study attempts to discover and model social correlates of infant homicide. A social profile is developed and used to assess the viability of potentially relevant theories, such as theories of aggression, family violence, homicide and substance abuse. Quantitative analyses are conducted on level of violence used to fatally injure the infant and the likelihood of the offender obtaining medical attention. It was found that victim's age and the level of intimacy between the offender and the victim significantly effect the level of violence used to fatally injure the infant. It was also found that the victim's age and the level of violence used to fatally injure the victim significantly effect the likelihood of the offender obtaining medical attention for the victim. Qualitative analysis is used to develop a model of infant homicide. It is concluded that a synthesis of the extant theories of aggression, family violence, homicide and substance abuse is an effective means...
Does police officer training for managing a domestic violence scene improve the chances for a cas... more Does police officer training for managing a domestic violence scene improve the chances for a case to be accepted for prosecution and to result in a conviction? If such training emphasises more careful evidence collection and response to victim, would not there be an increase in time spent on the scene? This article is an evaluation of domestic violence training for police officers and analyses the effect of the training on the amount of time police officers spend on the scene with victims of domestic violence, number of cases accepted for prosecution, and the case's culmination in a conviction. Data from 291 domestic violence cases were collected from a southwest, predominantly Mexican American, metropolitan police department and district attorney's office. Findings indicate no significant increases in time spent at the scene, acceptance of the case for prosecution, and conviction when comparing cases managed by trained officers to cases managed by untrained officers.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the level of suspicion by death certifiers when ruling infant deaths... more ABSTRACT This paper examines the level of suspicion by death certifiers when ruling infant deaths as accidents. Data were gathered on economic factors, amount of training in death investigation received, and personal characteristics for 1995 from 776 medical examiners or coroners. Findings indicate that personal and social factors such as age, education, and population have negligible or no effects on the level of suspicion held by death certifiers in manner of death rulings for infants. The findings from this study do suggest there is potential for inaccurate rulings of infant death due to lack of training, education, and economic resources depending on the events surrounding an infant's death and whether the death certifier is a coroner or medical examiner.
Using cross-national data, we analyze the effects of economic participation and opportunity, educ... more Using cross-national data, we analyze the effects of economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, political empowerment, legislating reserved seats for female political candidates, and prevalence of domestic violence victimization on lethal violence against women across 39 nations. These significant factors have been studied individually with little work on their comparative, unique effects on femicide. Our paper makes such a comparison. The dependent variable, femicide by intimate partners and family members, is constructed using data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Bank Group. All data are for the year 2011, a year that also corresponds to available data in the sources for our independent variables. These sources are the 2011 World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report, the United Nations Statistics Division, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Our resulting sample size is 39 countries from five regions of the world: Northern and Eastern Europe (n = 7), Southern and Western Europe (n = 11), Asia and Oceania (n = 7) Africa (n = 2), and the Americas (n = 12). The unit of analysis is nation and the total number of cases of femicide by intimate partners and family members from the nations is 2,067,450,894. Our study supports backlash theory and finds in nations where educational attainment and percent women reporting domestic violence are higher, and in nations having legislated quotas for female political participation, the incidents of femicide by intimate partner and family members increase. Counter to most previous research, we find no relationship between economic participation and opportunity or political empowerment and femicide by intimate partners and family members.
The utility of demographic and structural variables in examining child fatalities is explored usi... more The utility of demographic and structural variables in examining child fatalities is explored using data from the Uniform Crime Reports, which include all known homicide cases in the state of Texas from 1984 through 1994. The authors' analysis shows that the predictive power of these variables for adult homicide is substantially reduced when predicting child homicide. Social Exchange Theory provides a conceptual framework from which to analyze these types of cases by suggesting conditions under which infants may be lethally injured, usually by a parent or caretaker. This inclination is examined, explained, justified, and treated primarily according to physiological and psychological correlates.
Abstract: This article presents an analysis of the details of a fatal event and why heightened em... more Abstract: This article presents an analysis of the details of a fatal event and why heightened emotional stress could cause a mother to respond to her child with lethal aggression. It synthesizes earlier social correlates surrounding infant homicide with the depth of their ...
Vita.This study attempts to discover and model social correlates of infant homicide. A social pro... more Vita.This study attempts to discover and model social correlates of infant homicide. A social profile is developed and used to assess the viability of potentially relevant theories, such as theories of aggression, family violence, homicide and substance abuse. Quantitative analyses are conducted on level of violence used to fatally injure the infant and the likelihood of the offender obtaining medical attention. It was found that victim's age and the level of intimacy between the offender and the victim significantly effect the level of violence used to fatally injure the infant. It was also found that the victim's age and the level of violence used to fatally injure the victim significantly effect the likelihood of the offender obtaining medical attention for the victim. Qualitative analysis is used to develop a model of infant homicide. It is concluded that a synthesis of the extant theories of aggression, family violence, homicide and substance abuse is an effective means...
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